The Niger Delta Improvement Fee mentioned it has commenced emergency repairs of the failed sections of the East West-Street between Ahoada and Ula-Okobo city in Ahoada West Native Authorities Space of Rivers State.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who inspected the continuing restore works on the failed sections of the East-West Street between Ahoada and Ula-Okobo city in Ahoada West Native Authorities Space of Rivers State, appealed to motorists to cooperate with the contractor enterprise the repairs.
This was contained in a press release issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday by the NDDC Director, Company Affairs, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, and made obtainable to newsmen
Ogbuku acknowledged that the emergency repairs would restore the hyperlink between Rivers and Bayelsa states and noticed that the contractor was having challenges with taking building supplies to the unhealthy spots that wanted to be mounted.
The NDDC Chief Government Officer, who was accompanied by different Administrators of the Fee, was given an on the location briefing by the engineers of Webster International Ventures, the development agency dealing with the challenge for the Fee.
Ogbuku, noticed that the deplorable state of the highway, necessitated the emergency measures the NDDC was taking to right away restore the highway and make it motorable.
He apologised to highway customers, particularly truck drivers, who had been caught on the unhealthy spot for a number of days, assuring them that the NDDC would help the efforts of the Federal Ministry of Works, which was setting up large culverts on the sections that had been washed away through the 2022 flood.
He assured that the interventionist company would complement the efforts of the development firm working for the Ministry of Works to urgently repair the failed and unmotorable sections of the highway to revive the hyperlinks between Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states.
He mentioned: “We had been right here every week in the past and we noticed it was unattainable for any automobile to ply between Rivers and Bayelsa States. After that go to, we promptly engaged a building agency to urgently repair about 1.5-kilometres that had been nearly impassable. Our inspection at the moment has proven that we have to work on extra sections of the highway.”
The Managing Director of the development agency dealing with the repairs, Opeoluwa Adara, assured the NDDC that the corporate would expedite motion on the restore work. He regretted that among the motorists had been making it tough for them to usher in supplies for the repairs.
He promised that the highway hyperlinks to Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta State would quickly be restored, noting: “It’s difficult however now we have been working to stabilise the unhealthy sections and make them motorable.
One of many truck drivers, caught at Okobo, Malam Sani Ahmed, lamented that he had not been capable of transfer his automobile for over one week.
He appealed to the federal authorities and the NDDC to come back to their help by fixing the highway, stating that they had been on the mercy of criminals who had been making the most of their helplessness